Newark, New Jersey criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with purchasing prescription oncology medications under false pretenses to sell them for profit.

Anise Kachadourian, 55, of Towaco, New Jersey, a board-certified oncologist, pleaded guilty to an information charging her with unlawfully selling prescription cancer medication, which had been previously purchased usin... More...    $0 (05-31-2023 - NJ)

Trenton, New Jersey civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on an Americans with Disabilities Act violation theory.

21 U.S.c. 12101 Findings and purpose
(a) Findings

The Congress finds that—

(1) physical or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person's right to fully participate in all aspects of society, yet many people with physical or ... More...    $0 (04-11-2022 - NJ)

This matter has been opened to the Court by Margolis Edelstein, attorneys for Defendants Fieldstone Condominium Association, Gary Flaker, T.J. Reilly, Noel Belli, W. Gangeri, and Richard Anderson (collectively hereinafter "Defendants"), for an Order dismissing Plaintiff's Complaint in Lieu of Answer, filed on October 23, 2018. Plaintiffs Lawrence Tedesco and Carolyn Tedesco (collectively hereinaft... More...    $0 (11-16-2018 - NJ)

Michelle Moody sued the Atlantic City Board of Education (“Board”) for sexual harassment and retaliation pursuant to Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2(a)(1), 3(a), and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (“NJLAD”), N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 10:5-12(a), (d). The District Court granted summary judgment to the Board, finding that the alleged harasser, Maurice Marshall, was not Moody’s supervisor. Becaus... More...    $0 (09-12-2017 - NJ)

Defendant Michael D. Emanuel was tried before the South Orange
Municipal Court and convicted of committing the disorderly persons
offense of lewdness, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-4a. The municipal court
sentenced him to pay a maximum fine of $1000 and ordered him to
pay court costs and other mandatory penalties. Pursuant to Rule
3:23-8(a), defendant appealed to the Law Division for a... More...    $0 (12-17-2016 - NJ)

Wentworth is a property-management company, and the
Wentworth Group is the parent entity. Michael Mendillo was the
president and chief executive officer of Wentworth and the owner
of the Wentworth Group. In May 2005, Mendillo hired Ramon to
serve as one of Wentworth’s regional vice presidents -- the only
one of Hispanic descent. In that role, Ramon managed high-rise More...    $0 (09-21-2016 - NJ)

While a patron at defendant Sahara Sam’s Oasis Water Park,
plaintiff Roy Steinberg suffered a catastrophic spinal cord
injury while participating in a water ride that simulated riding
a surfboard. Plaintiff filed a lawsuit against Sahara Sam’s
Oasis, LLC, alleging that his injuries were caused by its gross
negligence and violations of statutory and regulatory provisions <... More...    $0 (08-23-2016 - NJ)

New Jersey has a significant body of statutory and
decisional law protecting employee rights -- protections that
exist whether the employee is a union member or not. Among
those are wage and hour and whistleblower protections. Facts
that can give rise to a violation of those state-law protections
can often (for union workers) also give rise to a claim based on
a col... More...    $0 (08-16-2016 - NJ)

On September 25, 2014, Detective Peters of the East Orange
Police Department received reliable information from a
confidential informant (CI). The CI previously provided
reliable information to Peters that resulted in the arrests and
convictions of numerous narcotic violators. The CI informed
Peters that a black male named Dorian was selling marijuana out
of an apar... More...    $0 (07-06-2016 - NJ)

On February 17, 2011, Trenton Police officers received an
anonymous tip about a man with a handgun in a black Hyundai
sedan with Georgia license plates, located on Martin Luther
King, Jr. Boulevard. The officers arrived at Martin Luther
King, Jr. Boulevard, and approached defendant. A brief car
chase ensued, which culminated in defendant's arrest. The
officers alle... More...    $0 (07-05-2016 - NJ)

This case arises from a 2008 traffic stop that resulted in
the arrest of defendant James Curley, after he attempted to flee
from police. Defendant was subsequently convicted by a jury of
May 6, 2016
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resisting arrest, simple assault, and unlawful possession of a
weapon. He now appeals from the October 14, 2011 judgment of
conviction entered by the ... More...    $0 (05-08-2016 - NJ)

This appeal presents the question of whether, in the
context of a jury trial for first-degree attempted murder, a
trial court erred by failing to charge the jury sua sponte on
the lesser-included offense of attempted passion/provocation
manslaughter.
The facts in this appeal were established at trial.
Defendant Lee Funderburg and Terra Andrews had previously been More...    $0 (05-08-2016 - NJ)

This appeal raises in part the novel issue of whether a
plaintiff, who was treated by a private medical provider under
contract to provide care to inmates at a county jail, must serve
that private entity with a tort claims notice before she can sue
the company for negligence. We hold that the Tort Claims Act
(the "TCA" or the "Act"), N.J.S.A. 59:1-1 to :14-4, does not More...    $0 (04-24-2016 - NJ)

On November 12, 2012, Joshua Negron was shot and killed on
the corner of Remsen and Hale Streets in New Brunswick. After a
joint investigation by the New Brunswick Police and the
Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, defendant, Javar Nail, was
arrested and charged with Negron's murder.
On November 14, 2012, a warrant was obtained and a search
was conducted of defenda... More...    $0 (04-12-2016 - NJ)

Defendant Divine C. Allah appeals from an April 12, 2013
judgment of conviction entered following a jury trial for third
degree possession of a controlled dangerous substance, N.J.S.A.
2C:35-10(a)(1), and challenges, as excessive, the imposed five
year imprisonment term, subject to a two-and-one-half-year
period of parole ineligibility. On appeal, among other things,
... More...    $0 (04-04-2016 - NJ)

This matter arises out of Defendant’s business practices, which consist largely of selling a
variety of consumer products. Of the approximately $40 million in revenue that Defendant
claims to have generated since July of 2013, it estimates that 40-45% of that revenue, or $16-$18
million, is attributable to Defendant’s sales of Samsung television sets. Plaintiff filed the instant More...    $0 (03-27-2016 - NJ)

We briefly summarize the relevant facts and procedural
history. On August 15, 2012, at around 2:00 p.m., M.M. took her
two children W.M. and V.M. to see a movie at a theater in Brick
Township. W.M. was seven years old, and V.M. was three years
old.
After watching the movie for approximately forty-five
minutes, M.M. heard noises behind her. She stood up and turned ... More...    $0 (03-16-2016 - NJ)

After the court denied defendant's motion for discovery,
the parties tried this case on several days before a judge and
jury. The State produced testimony from a Robbinsville Township
(the Township) Fire Department captain, the Township's former
director of fire (the Director), the payroll benefits
coordinator for the Township, the deputy chief of the Township's
Fire... More...    $0 (03-13-2016 - NJ)

On a single evening in July 2005, defendant committed a series of shootings in Irvington, killing one man and injuring
two others. Defendant, who is African American, was charged with first-degree murder and related offenses.
During jury selection, the State exercised nine of its twelve peremptory challenges; seven of the nine were used to
strike African-American prospective juro... More...    $0 (03-09-2016 - NJ)

Defendant pled guilty, pre-indictment, to an accusation charging him with murder, N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(1) or (2). The
March 8, 2016 charge arose from defendant fatally stabbing his elderly neighbor during the course of a robbery. In accordance with his plea agreement, the court sentenced defendant to life in prison subject to an eighty-five percent period of parole ineligibility pursuant to ... More...    $0 (03-08-2016 - NJ)

On a single evening in July 2005, defendant committed a
series of shootings in Irvington, killing one man and injuring
two others. Defendant, who is African American, was charged
with first-degree murder and related offenses.
During jury selection, the State exercised nine of its
twelve peremptory challenges; seven of the nine were used to
strike African-American p... More...    $0 (03-08-2016 - NJ)

This action's relevant procedural history is not complex.
One month after Loury's nearly two-year employment as a Concord
executive ended, he filed a four-count complaint against
Concord. Three of the counts were dismissed for failure to
state a claim upon which relief could be granted. The surviving
count alleged Concord breached the parties' employment
agreement.... More...    $0 (02-26-2016 - NJ)

On April 26, 2010, a Monmouth County grand jury returned a
forty-eight count indictment charging defendants and twenty
other individuals with a variety of drug offenses. The
indictment charged Dectric, Daryel, and Vashey with second
degree conspiracy to distribute a controlled dangerous substance
(CDS), N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2 and N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5(b)(2) (count one);
second-de... More...    $0 (02-21-2016 - NJ)

In these three back-to-back appeals, which we now
consolidate for purposes of this opinion, defendants Dectric
Rawls (Dectric), Daryel Rawls (Daryel),1 and Brandon W. Vashey
challenge their convictions and sentences following their guilty
pleas to various narcotics-related offenses arising from their
participation in a large-scale heroin-trafficking operation. We
aff... More...    $0 (02-05-2016 - NJ)

On August 26, 2009, defendant was charged with third-degree
endangering the welfare of a child, N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4, and
fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-3(b).
Those charges focused on events that took place on the morning
of March 24, 2009, involving C.W., a fourteen-year-old girl.
The following facts are gleaned from the evidence presented at
tri... More...    $0 (01-20-2016 - NJ)

The Workers' Compensation system has been described as an historic "trade-off" whereby employees relinquish their right to pursue common-law remedies in exchange for prompt and automatic entitlement to benefits for work-related injuries. Millison v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 101 N.J. 161, 174, 501 A.2d 505 (1985). That characterization is only broadly accurate. In fact, not every worker inj... More...    $0 (02-25-2002 - NJ)

On September 11, 2014, a grand jury in Trenton, New Jersey, returned a five-count Superseding Indictment against Binyamin Stimler, Mendel Epstein, Jay Goldstein ("Goldstein"), and David Aryeh Epstein.1 Defendants are all Orthodox Jewish men and their prosecutions arise out of allegations that Defendants engaged in criminal means to facilitate Orthodox Jewish divorces. According to the Supe... More...    $0 (01-06-2016 - NJ)

We summarize the trial testimony. At about 2:30 a.m. on April 13, 2011, Officer Mathew Brescia was alone on patrol in the Township of Union. At a darkened gas station, he saw a Subaru Impreza wagon parked next to the gas pump, with Armerding standing next to the rear passenger side. Knowing the gas station was closed, Brescia pulled in and exited his patrol car. He saw the gas pump was illuminated... More...    $0 (01-03-2016 - NJ)

Plaintiffs appeal the dismissal of their civil-rights suit
against the City of New York (the “City”). They claim to be
targets of a wide-ranging surveillance program that the New
York City Police Department (the “NYPD”) began in the
wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (the
“Program”). Plaintiffs allege that the Program is based on the
false and stigmatizing pre... More...    $0 (10-13-2015 - NJ)

A disability policy and a business overhead expense policy issued by Appellee Minnesota Life Insurance Company covered Appellant Kevin Witasick.1 Those policies were later acquired and administered by Appellee Standard Insurance Company. Witasick made claims against both policies, which were honored by the Appellees. A dispute arose, however, concerning the coverage of some of Witasick’s claimed b... More...    $0 (10-02-2015 - NJ)

Brand is a small company founded in 2004 by David Brand.1 Until about 2008, Brand sold vent-free heaters— products that provide gas heat without having to vent outdoors—made by a company called ProCom. At that point, Brand began developing the Thermablaster, a vent-free heater that purportedly improved on ProCom’s design.
Through some industry contacts, Brand was introduced to a Chinese com... More...    $0 (09-13-2015 - NJ)

.
In this appeal, we examine the role of our state courts in
making the predicate findings necessary for a non-citizen child
to apply for “special immigrant juvenile” (SIJ) status under the
Immigration Act of 1990, as amended by the William Wilberforce
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008
(TVPRA), Pub. L. No. 110-457, 122 Stat. 5044. SIJ status... More...    $0 (08-26-2015 - NJ)

In this appeal, we review the trial court’s denial ofdefendant Ivonne Saavedra’s motion to dismiss her indictment for
official misconduct and theft by unlawful taking of public
documents. We also consider defendant’s constitutional and
public policy challenges to the official misconduct and theft
statutes as they apply to her case.
Defendant, an employee of the North Berg... More...    $0 (06-23-2015 - NJ)

Family and Estate of Mario Gomez sued Tec-Cast, Inc.’s on a wrongful death negligence theory claiming that Mr. Gomez, age 61, died instantly in a blast at a Carlstadt metal casting plant five years ago.

Jose Salazar suffered a skull fracture and a broken leg and is still taking pain medication, while Ramon Agramonte underwent surgery for a broken ankle. Adalgisa Armetico suffered psycho... More...    $2700000 (02-19-2013 - NJ)

Seeking contribution for costs expended in the investigation and remediation of contaminated groundwater that tainted private wells in Bound Brook, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Administrator of the New Jersey Spill Compensation Fund (hereinafter collectively the DEP), filed this action under the Spill Compensation and Control Act (Spill Act or Act). Although the DE... More...    $0 (09-26-2012 - NJ)

This appeal arises from a dram shop action brought by plaintiff Douglas D. Davis against defendants Michael Kurilew, Walter Kurilew and Norman's Bar & Grill, Inc., d/b/a KC's Korner (collectively KC's Korner). Plaintiff alleged that KC's Korner negligently served alcohol to Justin B. "Red" Barkaszi2 while he was visibly intoxicated in violation of N.J.S.A. 2A:22A-5, which resulted in Barkaszi caus... More...    $0 (02-09-2012 - NJ)

Plaintiffs Loretta DeBoard and Dora Bailey, women who contracted breast cancer after being treated with hormone replacement therapy drugs Premarin, Prempro, and Provera, appeal orders of summary judgment in favor of drug manufacturers Wyeth, Inc., Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (collectively Wyeth) and Pharmacia & Upjohn Company (Upjohn), entered by Judge Jamie D. Happas dismissing their product liab... More...    $0 (09-29-2011 - NJ)